Shirt collar closure



April 3, 1956 w s 2,740,124

SHIRT COLLAR CLOSURE Filed June 16, 1954 INVENTOR. 11/0171; h'zzs/f ATTORNEY United States Patent SHIRT COLLAR CLOSURE Morris Walensky, Montclair, N. J. Application June 16, 1954, Serial No. 437,129 1 Claim. (Cl. 2128) This invention relates to shirts, and is more particularly directed to the provision of a closure member which is adapted to be secured to the collar portion of a shirt for cooperation with the collar button hole of the shirt. The closure member comprises a band of stretchable material, to one end of which a collar button is secured, the second end of the band being so secured to the shirt that said bottom may be manipulated for insertion into the button hole without causing an appreciable tightening of the collar portion of the shirt. The invention enables the comfortable utilization of shirts of smaller or intermediate sizes and utilization of the standard-sized shirts as comfortably as custom-made shirts.

These and other advantageous objects, which will appear from the drawings and from the description hereinafter, are accomplished by the structure of my invention, of which an embodiment is illustrated in the drawing. It will be apparent, from a consideration of said drawings and the following description, that the invention may be embodied in other forms suggested thereby, and such other forms as come within the scope of the appended claim are to be considered within the scope and purview of the instant invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a closure member embodying the invention, showing the elongated band of stretchable material with a button secured to a first end thereof, and the second end of said band secured to a tab in turn secured to a shirt pursuant to my invention,

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevational view, showing the closure member positioned on the band of a shirt in the process of securing the same thereto,

Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the manner in which the closure member is folded upon itself over the collar band of the shirt and stitched thereto in one form of the invention, and

Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the invention applied to a sports shirt wherein the collar is secured directly to the shirt, Fig. 4, being a fragmentary elevation view showing the first step and Fig. 5 a similar view of the second step of securing the closure member of this invention to such a shirt.

As shown in the drawings, the closure member of this invention is adapted to secure an elongated band 11 of stretchable material to a shirt 12 (at the collar band portion thereof in the case of shirts of the form shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or at the collar portion 14 thereof in the case of shirts of the form shown in Figs. 4 and 5). Fig. 4 illustrates the manner in which the closure member is positioned on one thickness of the collar of a sports shirt prior to the two thicknesses of such collar being stitched together; Fig. 5 illustrates the thickness of the collar stitched together over the extended portion of the blank,

the latter being doubled over the second wall 31a of the collar and stitched thereto.

As shown in Fig. 1, the closure member of the present invention comprises an elongated band 11 of material which is stretchable and has secured to a first end thereof a button 15 for reception in the button hole 16 of the cooperating portion 17 of the shirt (Fig. 4). The closure member includes a tab 18 made of suitable material such as a fabric material having a first end 19 folded over the band and preferably secured thereto as by a row of stitches 20, and having an extended portion 21 beyond the folded first end 19 said extended end being adapted to be secured to a shirt so as to flexibly connect end 19 thereto. In the form shown in Fig. 2, the extended portion 21 of the tab 10 is inserted intermediate the thicknesses of the collar band 22 of the shirt 12 prior to stitching the said thicknesses of the band together as along the line 23 in the conventional manner, or the said thicknesses of the band 22 may be stitched together except for the portion 24 which thereby define a slot for the insertion of the extended portion 21 of the tab 18. Thereafter the first folded portion 19 of the tab may be folded over the band as shown in Fig. 3 and stitched thereto, as for example indicated at 25 in Fig. 3.

The completed structure is found to be admirably adapted for the purpose set forth above.

In the form shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the device is secured to a sports shirt 30 having no collar band, but having the collar 31 secured directly to the shirt as at 32. In that case, the tab 18 has a portion 19 folded over the end of the band 11 (as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3) and the extended portion 21 is preferably inserted intermediate the thicknesses 31a, 31b of the collar 31 as in Fig. 4 and then the portion 19 of the tab is folded over the collar and stitched thereto as at 33 in Fig. 5. It will be noted from Fig. 1 that the extended portion 21 of the tab 18 may be doubled upon itself as at 34, and it is this doubled portion 34 that is stitched as at 25 Fig. 3 to the collar band 22 or as at 33, Fig. 5 to collar portion 14 of the shirt.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A closure means for a two-ply collar member of a shirt and for cooperation with a button hole in the shirt; comprising an elongated band of flexible end stretchable material, said band being provided on one end thereof with a button for removable reception within said button hole, a connector tab comprising an elongated strip of material having opposite end portions thereof folded toward each other and into adjacency to one side of the central body portion thereof, the opposite end of said band being secured between said central body portion and one of said folded end portions, the other folded end portion and corresponding body portion being disposed between said collar member plies adjacent corresponding edges thereof, and said first folded end portion and corresponding central body portion being folded over said ply edges and onto the outer ply into superposed relation to said first folded end portion and secured thereto and to said plies.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,814,760 Miller July 14, 1931 2,385,638 Norwood Sept. 25, 1945 2,592,265 Fyfie Apr. 8, 1952 

